EVENT DETAILS

Home Run Rule / Courtesy Runner

EQUALIZER RULE

North Carolina "State Rules"

https://ncslowpitch.usssa.com/state-rules/

• Floating Rubber Pitchers will not be required to “toe” the pitching rubber. They may be up to 6’ behind the pitching rubber and within the pitching box.
• Starting lineups  Teams may start with 8 players. Teams starting with 8 or 9 do not have to take an out for the missing players.Teams starting with less than 10 may add up to 10 when available but they must be added to the bottom of lineup.

Courtesy (Bandit) Runner

• The Bandit Runner (BR) may be anyone on the roster.
• The BR must be designated before the game begins This is tied to the player and not a position in the lineup or on the roster.
• The BR will be the Bandit Runner for the remainder of the game. The BR may run for anyone at any time.
• If the BR is also in the batting lineup, and his turn at bat occurs while he is on base, his position in the batting order will be an out. If the BR’s “Turn at Bat” occurs and the BR is ON BASE, an out will be recorded for his position in the batting order. There are NO exceptions. His “turn at bat” occurs when the previous batters turn at bat has ended. “Play Ball” or “Batter Up” need not be indicated for his turn at bat to occur. There shall be no other penalty other than an out.
• The BR role may not be substituted. A Bandit Runner may be replaced on the base only by the player he is running for at the time. The Bandit Runner role is then lost for the remainder of the game.
• If anyone other that the BR assumes a position on the base to run for another player and is not announced prior to touching the base as a legal substitute the baserunner at that base will be declared out.

Runner for the Pitcher

• In addittion to the “Bandit Runner”  the pitcher will be allowed a runner other than the Bandit Runner If the Bandit is on base or in jeopardy of being on base when it is his turn to bat. This “pitcher runner” may be anyone on the roster. If his turn to bat occurs and he is occupying a base he will be “out at the plate”.

Event Format

Pool Play   50 Minutes finish the inning Plus 1    Bracket Play 50 Minutes finish the inning PLUS 1  

We will play 2 Pool Play Games after which Teams will be seeded into a Double Elim bracket. 

Pool Play games that are tied after the last or last  announced inning will end in a tie.
Bracket seeding will be based on Pool Play. 

Pool Standing Criteria

Pool Standings Sorted on the following:
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1) Winning Percentage - Descending
2) Number Wins - Descending
3) Number Loses - Ascending
4) Tied Teams (vs. each other) Winning Pct - Descending [Not valid if all tied teams have not played each other]
5) Avg Points Allowed - Ascending
6) Avg Run Differential with a maximum of (100) - Descending
7) USSSA Points - Descending
8) Date Team Entered USSSA Database

Once past a tie breaker do not return to previous

Legal Bats and Balls

All Onyx balls are banned from USSSA Play

Bats

  Age groups 40+ and above may use any bat Stamped 1.21 BPF
Senior. It does not have to be USSSA stamped until they are
available. However, it must be from a USSSA licensed
manufacturer. May also use the 220 or 240 USSSA stamped
bats. Both 220 & 240 USSSA stamped bats must pass 220
compression. Bats must be on the USSSA Approved
Manufacturers List. WITHDRAWN AND/OR NON-COMPLIANT
SOFTBALL BAT MODELS will not be allowed.

Suncoast | SR12MUCETE
Suncoast | SRM12AASE
Suncoast | SR12MUCE
Suncoast | SRMAASE
Suncoast | SRMAASB
Suncoast | SRMUSE
Suncoast | SR12MUSE
Suncoast | SRMUSB
Suncoast | SR12MUSB